Re^6: Variable triggers global destruction hang

I'm confused. The two cases I see in the original post are:

    open FH , "| cat " ;
    open STDOUT, ">&FH";
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and

    my $foo = qr(a);
    open FH , "| cat " ;
    open STDOUT, ">&FH";
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FH is duplicated to STDOUT in both cases.

And, saintmike said:

Just verified: With an old perl-5.8 I get the different behavior with/without the variable, with perl-5.10 it hangs regardless.

I took this to mean that with 5.10 it hangs waiting for the sub-process to terminate.

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Re^7: Variable triggers global destruction hang by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 12, 2009 at 07:34 UTC
What makes you think that a reply to Re^3: Variable triggers global destruction hang answers a question in Variable triggers global destruction hang when Re^3: Variable triggers global destruction hang asks a different question?	[reply]
Re^8: Variable triggers global destruction hang by ig (Vicar) on Sep 12, 2009 at 07:42 UTC
My mistake - I didn't notice that the cases had changed. Sorry for the confusion.	[reply]